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2A THE PUTNAM dfwrfY BANKER-GRAPHIC, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28,1974

Cougars survive Clover pressure to enter finals

Goverdale’s Clovers threw a half court trap press and a lot of hustle at the North Putnam Cougars Friday night at McAnally Center, but they were not enough to avert a 50-36 defeat in game two of the Putnam County Holiday Basketball Tournament. The trap press which the Clovers employed in the second quarter brought them back from a 19-8 deficit to within two points of the Cougars with just under a minute to play in the half when Tim Ford grabbed the rebound from a Randy Barron miss, put it back up and in, absorbed a foul and converted the free throw for a three point play. Jerry Miller responded for the Cougars with a pair of free throws at : 45 to send his team into the locker room with a 2319 advantage, but when they returned to the floor eight minutes later they saw that lead quickly vanish. After Tom Alexander brought the Clovers back to within two with an 18 footer just 16 seconds into the third quarter the trap press forced three Cougar turnovers before Alexander connected on a pair of free throws to tie the game for the (wily time at 5:54. Then a combination of Cloverdale impatience on offense and gradual North Putnam control of the inside game worked together to reel off eight unanswered Cougar points, Rex Call hitting a five footer and followup, Jim Brothers a tap-in and Steve Bullerdick a 12 foot baseline jumper to boost the Cougars to a 31-23 lead at 3:37. From there until the final buzzer the Cougars gradually assumed more of the control that was expected of them in the game to build their final

margin of victory, the last five points coming in the final minute amidst a flurry of Cloverdale fouls. “Cloverdale outscrapped and outhustled us,” said a not happy Cougar coach Jim Sharp in the wake of the contest. “We didn’t play well, never ran an offensive play because we were trying to break the press.” Cloverdale mentor A1 Tucker, though not happy himself in defeat could at least find room to say “Overall I can’t be too dissatisfied. The kids worked at it but we just made too many mental blunders. And again our shooting was off; we shot only 26 per cent.” Add to that statistic the fact that with the exception of a short span in the second quarter the Clovers were consistently held to one shot each time down the floor (the Cougars out rebounded them 47-20 for the game, 26-8 in the second half) and it becomes apparent that the only thing keeping them in the game was their defense. Starting only one plus six footer (6’2 Alexander) against the Cougars’ front line of the 6’5 Brothers boys and 6’1 Bullerdick the Clovers counteracted their height disadvantage right off the opening tip with man-to-man pressure on the Cougar guards that forced North Putnam to shoot from outside most of the initial period, an effective tactic that held them to just 14 points. At the other end of the floor, however, the Clovers were quite cold when they managed shots off the Cougar 2-1-2 zone that disguised itself with passing guard pressure at halfcourt, not even finding the range until 3:23 when Rick

Langdon popped a 15 footer to set the scoreboard at 8-2. Two more outside Clover buckets nearly balanced a Cougar two pointer and a quartet of charity tosses when the quarter stop found North Putnam ahead, 146 Having established a tempo of sorts with their defense the Clovers showed the trap press for the first time at the outset of the second quarter, but balanced the increase with a

deliberate offense that took its time perimeter passing around the Cougar zone in search of open 15-20 footers. It found three that converted themselves into two-pointers, and when the Cougars shifted their attentions in this vicinity the Clovers were able to shoot a man or two under the zone to hit the boards, as Ford did on his three pointer that narrowed the North Putnam lead to two. It was a strong quarter for

Ford, as he added two free throws to that play and some scrappy board work, but it was also to be his last in the game. Midway through the third quarter he dove with Cougar guard Mark Hess for a loose ball along the sideline in front of the Clover bench, the ensuing collision clearly audible to those nearby in the stands. Ford rolled over clutching his collarbone, got to his feet and seemed to walk it off. But

High school cage tallies

By The Associated Press Friday Night Tourneys Archbishop Biskup Tourney Chatard 66, Ritter 39, final Scecina 69, Roncalli 65,

Gary 63 North Judson 70, Rensselaer

Lafayette Tourney Martinsville 71, Portage 60

consolation

Lafayette Jefferson 82,

Bellmont Tourney

Tipton 48

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South Adams 71, Bellmont 67

Lebanon Tourney

Portland 67, Bellmont 65

New Albany 72, Indpls

Carmel Tourney

Washington 68

Anderson Madison Heights

Lebanon 97, Elwood 52

68, Peru 65

Richmond Tourney

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Carmel 71, Franklin 67

Fort Wayne South 74, Muncie

East Noble Tourney

South 37

East Noble 70, Garrett 59,

Richmond 80, Bloomington

final

South 55

Leo 55, Angola 48, con-

solation

Elkhart Tourney Mishawaka 62, Elkhart Memorial 47 Elkhart Central 62, Valparaiso 56 Frankfort Tourney Harrison (Tippecanoe) 75, Southwestern (Tippecanoe) 53 Frankfort 94, Mooresville 49 Goshen Tourney Merrillville 74, Concord 55 Goshen 51, Westview 41 Greensburg Tourney Greensburg 67, Greenfield 54 Rushville 89, Shelbyville 49 Highland Tourney La Porte 78, Highland 61 Kankakee Valley Tourney Kankakee Valley 77, East Including Oakland

Rockville Tourney Rockville 63, North Vermillion 59 Rosedale 82, Eminence 76 Silver Creek Tourney Charlestown 69, Clarksville Providence 49 Clarksville 68, Silver Creek

Vincennes Tourney Terre Haute North 69, Evansville North 64 Vincennes 49, Benton Central

Westfield Tourney Daleville 55, Sheridan 53 Hamilton Heights 78, Westfield 57 West Vigo Tourney Clinton 78, Terre Haute Schulte 76 West Vigo 87, Van Buren 76

Eight teams still on the Catfish list

AHOSKIE, N.C. (AP) - Catfish Hunter spent the holiday recess from the high-powered negotiating going on here by relaxing with his family, hunting for deer and trimming his Christmas list. One of Hunter’s lawyers said Friday night that there are noweight teams on the star righthander’s shopping list—including his former team, the Oakland A’s. “All of the teams were obviously interested in Jim. But some didn’t offer a real good contract,” said attorney Joseph Fly the. “So frankly we told them right then and there that there is just no way.” Flythe would not specify which eight teams had made the first cut in the Catfish Hunter sweepstakes, although he did say “they are scattered all over the country,” that six of them had'come here to make personal appeals and Hunter had played in the cities of all the teams but one in either the regular or exhibition seasons. The clubs that sent representatives down to this farming hamlet 24 miles southwest of the Virginia-North Carolina border are the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians. Philadelphia Phillies,

California Angels, Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos and Kansas City Royals. The teams that have pulled out are the Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. San Francisco was the only club that didn’t make any sort of bid for Hunter, according to Flythe. That leaves the New York Mets, Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves, Oakland A’s, Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox as teams which have neither made personal apperances nor dropped out of the sweepstakes. The A’s are in the top eight, Flythe said, and a source close to the negotiations told The Associated Press the Mets were the other telephone bidder to make the first cut. Hunter reiterated Friday he would never play for the A’s while Charles O. Finley was the team’s owner. However, Hunter has said if the club fell into new ownership and the A’s then came up with the offer, he would again be wearing the green and gold. But this time he would be paid a lot more green and gold to do it. Flythe said the A’s were in the running because “as we un-

derstand it, there are some people in the process of buying the A’s.” Friday’s visits by the brass from the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Texas Rangers wrapped up the scheduled meetings. Flythe said today’s plans called for the attorneys in his firm—Cherry, Cherry and Flythe—to meet with Hunter and evaluate the remaining bids. In a phone interview Friday night, Hunter said he might

visit the cities with the best bids, and would not make a final decision until Jan. 8 at the earliest. Ironically, Finley, the man Hunter won’t play for, is the same man who put him the enviable position of choosing his next baseball employer and just about writing his own contract. An arbitration panel ruled two weeks ago that Finley had breached Hunter’s contract, making him a free agent.

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Cub seventh graders split with Monrovia

MONROVIA-Greencastle’s 7th grade A basketball team dropped their second game of the year when the host Monrovia Bulldogs squeezed to a 48-44 decision here last week, but the Tiger Cub B team gained a split for the day with a 29-18 victory over their hosts. The Cub A team jumped to a 12-9 lead at the end of the first quarter and still maintained a one point edge at halftime, leading 26-25. However in the third quarter the Bulldogs took the lead, ending the session on top, 36-34, and then extending their advantage to the final winning margin.

Brown led Greencastle’s scoring efforts with 16 points, backed up by 12 from Buis. The Cub B teamers stretched a four point lead which they had maintained throughout the first half into a 17-10 margin at the end of the third period and then added one more bucket to their bulge in the last stanza to record their second win of the year against no defeats. Pingleton notched 12 points for the winners, while Black tabulated 6. The Cub B teaThers will go for their third straight win Jan. 2 while their A counterparts will be looking for their second success.

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after sitting for a short time on the Clover bench he left for the lockerroom and later to the hospital with what was described as probably a broken collarbone. It was at about this time that the Cougars were sprinting out to the lead once again, for the first time in the game beginning to control the tempo. The Clovers aided the tempo shift by abandoning the deliberate offense that had helped to bring them back into the game a quarter before. (“We had a couple of fellows who thought they were Rick Barry or something,” Tucker was later to say.) With the forced shots still not falling with anything approaching regularity for the Clovers and the Cougars taking over under the bucket at the other end of the floor the outcome of the contest was soon decided, with only the score to be settled at the final buzzer. Saturday night the Cougars

take on the South Putnam Eagles for both the varsity and reserve county titles, as the Eagles advanced to the B team finals with a 57-46 verdict over Greencastle in the preliminary game Friday right. Coach Roger Fleetwood’s forces overcame an 11-8 deficit at the end of the first quarter to take a 24-21 advantage into the lockerroom with them, and then rode 12 of Brad Booe’s Varsity Box Score

Cougars (SO)

FG FT F TP 3 117 0 0 10 2 0 3 4 12 14 « 2 3 14 5 0 3 10 13 15 14 2 6 !» 12 15 50

Bullerdick Paris R. Brothers Miller J Brothers

Call Hess

Rossok Totals

game high 18 points in the third quarter to a comfortable 47-32 margin, which they protected well enough in the final stanza from the Cubs of Gerald York. Tip-off time for the reserve game Saturday night is 6:45, with the varsity championship tilt to follow at approximately

8:15.

South Putnam will be looking to repeat as the county’s varsity title-holder while while North Putnam won last year's reserve crown.

Clovers (36) FG FT F TP

Reserve Box Score Eagles (57) FG FT 4

2 2 0

Alexander Bailey Barron Cum mings Ford Langdon Anderson Chestnut Gale Neese Totals

Crawley Coffin

Booe Bam

Burnham

Denny Nichols

McCammack I Kelly 0

Totals

Score by Quarters Cougars 14 23 34 SO Clovers 6 19 25 36

J. O'Hair M O'Hair L. Williams Delp McClaine Cox Smith Huber Totals

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Pressure Clover style Employing the half court trap press which gave the North Putnam Cougars fits Friday night at McAnally Center during game tw o of the Putnam County Holiday Basketball Tournament are (above left) Jerry Chestnut, as he bats the ball away from a pair of Cougar hands, (above right) Randy Barron as he turns Cougar guard Mark Hess at the point of the press, (left) Tim Ford as he pressures Hess (the two later hit the hardcourt together, resulting in a possibly broken collarbone for Ford) and (right) Clover coach A1 Tucker as he points out instructions to his forces. (Banner-Graphic photos)

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